The quality of cricket and cricketers is the highest when the mind of the fan is at its most impressionable. In other words, cricket for the fan is whatever he sees, especially when he is young. Whatever happens before or after that gets meshed into one fuzzy blob of the primitive and the decadent. And if we look at the cricket fiction of PG Wodehouse, especially the ones which were later republished, we find that the author and his editors were extremely aware of this phenomenon.
by Arunabha Sengupta